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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and ...
The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in ...
AI pentesting grows with chatbot adoption, with free Arcanum labs and Docker setups, a practical path for beginners. Ethical ...
Even signed, virus-free programs can secretly hack your computer through a tactic called DLL hijacking. Hackers slip in ...
Between paid hacking jobs, Svara also independently hacked into the accounts of women in Plainfield, Illinois, and students at Colby College in Maine. Svara now faces charges of aggravated identity ...
Fintech firm Marquis told customers that it plans to seek compensation from its firewall provider after blaming the company for a breach that allowed hackers to steal its customers’ personal and ...
A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker,” according to a document released by the Department of Justice on Friday. The document, which was released as ...
Panera Bread and its customers are the latest victims of a data breach carried out by the ShinyHunters hacking group. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images The hacking group ShinyHunters is at it again.
Step Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolio tracker built on Solana, said some of its treasury wallets were compromised in a security breach under active investigation. Onchain data shared ...
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot) is an agentic AI tool taking the tech sphere by storm. If you’ve missed it, it’s a gateway that plugs your tool-capable AI model of choice into a wide range of ...
Volvo Group North America disclosed that it suffered an indirect data breach stemming from the compromise of IT systems at American business services giant Conduent, of which Volvo is a customer.